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View Poll Results: Would you vote for Mike Huckabee over Obama for President? (See initial post)

Sure, but how many would vote Libertarian, or stay home? Surely the Republicans can put up someone so bad that this becomes a viable option.

I hope the Repubs nominate an outsider that has not been a career or DC politician. Someone that will cut spending like what Greece and Spain are doing. I don't think there is a politician on the hill that would propose that bitter pill. Spending is out of control and needs to be cut sharply.

I hope the Repubs nominate an outsider that has not been a career or DC politician. Someone that will cut spending like what Greece and Spain are doing. I don't think there is a politician on the hill that would propose that bitter pill. Spending is out of control and needs to be cut sharply.

Well, Bush wasn't a career or DC politician and he could sure spend with the best of them. So I don't know if that's a safe litmus test. Although, I would prefer a complete outsider that simply has "common sense" and knows what it's like to go through life as an unprivileged normal person.

Mike Huckabee is a REAL conservative. He's just not your 'version' of a conservative, because he is a 'moderate' on the fiscal issues, which I can accept - so long as he doesn't become a fiscal liberal.

As governor, he was definitely a fiscal liberal.

"Today, [the American voter] chooses his rulers as he buys bootleg whiskey, never knowing precisely what he is getting, only certain that it is not what it pretends to be." - H.L. Mencken

At this point, I'd vote for Homer Simpson over O Blah Blah. Homer is dumb but at least he knows it. O Blah Blah deems himself smarter than everybody else, in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary. He even postures as smarter than the experts in various fields such as economics and oil companies.

This idiot must be defeated and thrown out with the rest of the RAT garbage over the next two elections.:mad:

I would prefer a complete outsider that simply has "common sense" and knows what it's like to go through life as an unprivileged normal person.

Yes an outsider, but someone with a lot of executive experience under their belt.
We've seen now what happens when you put some inexperienced dweeb in office.
The President needs to be someone who can handle a crisis, the press, recognize
the qualities in others than it takes to put a good cabinet together (not just had out
Tzarships to friends).

We need to stop electing people because they look good on tv or the come from a
particular party. We need to exercise more due dilligence when we review the
resumes of those applying for the job, just like you would if they were being hired
to run your own company. Our POTUS is not just a figure head like the English
monarchy - he's a working man in charge of the largest corporation in the world.

Governor Mike Huckabee is a staunch social conservative, but he hasn't been well regarded for his fiscal policy as Governor of Arkansas. Huckabee is strongly pro-life and opposes gay marriage/civil unions/adoption, etc. But Mitt Romney pointed out that taxes went up slightly overall when Huckabee was governor, and Fred Thompson called Huckabee a "pro-life liberal" during the 2008 presidential campaign.

The poll question is: If Governor Mike Huckabee became the Republican nominee for president in 2012, and Obama remained the Democrat nominee, would you vote for Mike Huckabee for president?

Mitch Daniels is pro-life. But I CERTAINLY DON'T appreciate his 'truce' statement on the social issues. I'm with Mike Huckabee on this one.

Do you even understand what his "truce on social issues" is about? It's about getting the Ship sound and seaworthy before worrying about what color/material the banisters are. If the Finances of the country are sinking us (which they are) then we need to get that shit straightened out. Especially when that guy turned Indiana into the ONLY state in the Midwest that his financially sound at the moment (1.3 BILLION dollar surplus)

You're going to back a guy that is pretty good on social issues, but EXTREMELY lax on Fiscal issues. I will give him he was on of the few that backed the Fair Tax, but the rest of it is crap.